| Show scientific AND USEFUL the earth is tim times timea s smaller sni aller alier than saturn and its mean lilean distance distance from us ja is miles japan produces tons of dried sardines annually according to the latest off lelal returns in the forest beds near the delta of the mississippi are found cypress trunks twenty five feet in diameter and one containing annual rings nine bodies were cremated during last year in lemoyne crematory at washington pa making a tolaf total of twenty tive five since tha tho oven was built in 1876 the largest lar est farm in the world Is probably babl babi tl that of samuel mackey of new south sou wales lil lit llis liis land laud runs seven hundred miles in one direction and comprises live tive million acres the editor of the southern clinic certifies along with dr claridge and dr DeCall hol hoi to the abortive power of salicylic sall sali cylle acid in var loia lola given in the ordinary doses dr bryce thus concludes 1 I believe salicylic sall sali cylie cyile acid used early and freely treely will place smallpox small pox in the category with measles chicken pox and other trilling trifling 0 complaints the weight of any bar of iron may be found by these rules fiat elat and qin gyn multiply by the area of the en end I 1 in inches inc e by y the length in feet arin be an e u J ell eil s thle thie trie PP round oun iron multiply the square of the diameter in inches by the length iu in feeland feet fee taud tand and the product by the constant the quotient is the weight in pounds professor Hux leys address to the international ter fisheries exhibition was full of curious information an acre of good c fishing ground he said will alerd more food faoa in a week than an acre of the best laud in a year ear ile he drew a dvid vivid picture picture of the I 1 movin moving mountain sot lot 01 co cot to feet in heigh heights th which tor jor two months mouths in every year moves westward and southward past the norwegian coast every square mile of this coll column of nish fish contains of tish lish the american railway hallway journal tournai tw foe september contains a description and illustration of a device for preventing smoke and sparks from annoying passengers on railway trains the smokestack ol of the locomotive Is provided with an elbow near the top which by means of a damper convoys conveys all the smoke and sparks into a tubular conductor running back over the cab and tender similar conductors run over the roofs of the cars and are provided with funnel shaped enlargements at the front ends into which the rear ends of conductors on preceding cars are inserted when the train is coupled up thus giving it a practically continuous smoke pipe to the end of the train |